Beyond fiction, the "nursery machine" has a very real and life-saving identity: the infant incubator. Jeffrey P. Baker’s 1996 book, The Machine in the Nursery: Incubator Technology and the Origins of Newborn Intensive Care , provides a detailed historical account of this technology. The book traces the journey of the incubator from a simple warming device in late 19th-century France to a complex life-support system in the United States.
: Nurseries often use sophisticated climate control systems to maintain optimal temperatures, humidity levels, and light exposure for different types of plants. the nursery machine page 17